WE Energies was expected to spend $363.7 million on the project, although it appears to have come under the target set by the Public Service Commission. Of course, the over $300 million in cost will soon be passed on to electricity rate payers as soon as 2013.

To be fair, WE Energies did not build the wind farm because it hates birds, bats or ratepayers. Nor did it build the wind farm because the company wanted to build a giant ice ball thrower.

And it certainly did not build the windmills because wind energy is cheaper than the alternatives. Because it is not.

The wind farm was built as part of a plan to increase WE Energies “renewable energy” portfolio. The company is mandated by the state of Wisconsin to increase its use of renewable energy sources from less than three percent of the electricity generated by WE Energies to 8.27% by 2015.

“Wind energy does not pollute. No mercury, no sulfur, no fly ash, no CO2. If fossil fuel pollution cost was added to the price of the energy produced then wind beats coal. This is called an external cost. How about we add that external cost to the fuel in the form of a carbon tax.”

How about it Wiggy? A carbon tax is a free market solution to pollution.

I want to add, the kills from strikes are far less than from the pollution from coal burning.

A carbon tax is another way to take from producers to give to parasites. Carbon is essential to life. Until there is a consensus. When the argument is over. The tax will have done nothing except make the taxers wealthy. Nothing, zero, nada, zilch. Because if we tax carbon the carbon usage will go to where it’s not taxed.

there is no solution to a problem that does not exist.

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